Itay Talgam has conducted some of the world’s best ensembles, and studied with and assisted great conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Claudio Abbado. At the Interactive Exchange, Itay presented an emotional and captivating presentation about music. He showed how music shares so much with the need for collaboration of the interactive industry. To make an orchestra sound like more than a collection of individuals, it takes knowledge and innovation, individual effort and collective achievement. Similarly in the creation of unique and innovative interactive projects, it takes some sort of conducting.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau have changed their tune and are now predicting that the whole businesses dependent on online advertising could go belly up, and researcher IDC has completely reversed its growth estimates. No longer will online ads grow 10% in 2009, says the firm. IDC now predicts a 5% drop in revenues in the first quarter that could get worse in the second. I am not sure why anyone should be surprised at this, the recession was bound to impact on all aspects of marketing spend, not just traditional media.
As I have mentioned in previous posts I use Twitter. What people are wondering is how Twitter is going to monetize itself. Recently, they announced the hiring of executives focused on revenue and monetizing strategies. Monetizing Twitter is one of the hottest topics around, and a question that has more than one expert (and pundit) guessing away. Enter adCause, a new advertising service that offers its own take on the dilemma.
Essentially, adCause connects Twitter users with those businesses looking
I like many others are completely annoyed with the volume of Facebook application requests I get on a daily basis. How many Zombies do I need to beat on? How many pokes can my belly take? There is one Facebook application that has caught my attention though. Hippopost has launched a new Facebook application that allows users to send their friends customized postcards free of charge. For now the …
What a great blog idea, Weatherlicious is focused on distilling complex weather information through the use of cartoon imagery. Simple, to the point, entertaining. As an example, take “Global Warming” as seen below from the perspective of the sun.
There are some great cartoons on the blog …
Two weeks ago on a Sunday night I was standing at the barbecue cooking dinner for my wife’s birthday (15 people) when my blackberry went off. As it was Sunday night I figured it was one of my clients, the one who always emails Sunday night, well actually the one who emails around dinner time, the other client emails around 10 (she is in a different time zone). When I …
There are many uses for Flickr photos, from presentations to pure entertainment. Flickr exists to allow people overwhelmed with the sheer number of photos they take or videos they shoot to better manage all that content. Part of their solution is to make the process of organizing photos or videos collaborative. In Flickr, friends, family, and other contacts can be given permission to organize your stuff, not …
I have been using Twitter more these days, thanks to a steady flow of incoming status messages from the likes of mitchjoel, shawnlitvack and others. As I have been using it a couple of interesting business models have come to mind too, not that I am ready to share those yet. However others are far down the path of innovation using Twitter and here are a few interesting …
So while reading the latest gossip on Natalie Portman (who I think is cute) I decided to look at the web site for her new boyfriend’s band. This led me to devendrabanhart.com where I came across the homepage as you can see here.
What the %*^#$ I thought to myself? Where is …
So at the ICE08 conference I happened to see a demo of a really neat online tool, Animoto. Basically a group of people who came from the film and software industries got together and built what I would simply call an automated photo collage maker. But it is so much more. It has ab ability to take a series of photos, a soundtrack, and …
Does Twitter have a place in the business world?
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